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June 24, 2011 β American Heart Association (AHA) CEO Nancy Brown praised the new, larger tobacco packaging warning labels unveiled this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The labels include graphic images of disease caused by tobacco.
June 24, 2011
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June 24, 2011 β AT&T announced that Baptist Health System and Henry Ford Health System have signed agreements to pilot its new cloud-based Medical Imaging and Information Management service. Doctors will be able to quickly connect to patients' medical images, regardless of which device originally took the image, allowing them to offer faster treatment. The service will help lower costs in an industry where it can take multiple and unconnected systems and devices to transmit a single image.
June 24, 2011
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June 23, 2011 β A new study published in the June edition of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery highlights that a more uniform distribution of endovascular coils may help in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Deltapaq endovascular microcoils from Codman & Shurtleff Inc., a global neurovascular and neuroscience company, were used in the study.
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June 23, 2011 β The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) applauds the introduction of House Resolution 295 by Reps. Kay Granger, R - Texas, Dutch Ruppersberger, D β Md., and Charles Gonzalez, D - Texas. The resolution will support efforts to raise public awareness of atrial fibrillation (AF) by enhancing the quality of care and patient safety, advancing research and education, and improving access to appropriate medical treatment for patients suffering from AF.
June 23, 2011
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Jun 21, 2011 β Insurance provider UnitedHealthcare has made Cambridge Heartβs Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing a covered benefit for its subscribers. UnitedHealthcare is an operating division of UnitedHealth Group, the largest single health carrier in the United States with more than 32 million medical enrollments.
June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011 β Issues involving sharing medical images and possible solutions were discussed by vendors during an Applied Vendor Learning Session at the 2011 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 2-5 in Washington, D.C.
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June 21, 2011 β The Heart Hospital of Austin, a physician-led hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in Austin, Texas, recently adopted the Philips iE33 xMatrix ultrasound system with live 3-D transesophageal echo (TEE). Clinicians wanted better views of heart valves to help them diagnose and treat patients. The system was chosen for use in the hospitalβs open-heart valve program.
June 21, 2011
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May 16, 2011 β Patients who undergo a procedure to unblock a coronary artery are likely to survive longer if they participate in structured follow-up care, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association .
June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011 β The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind., announced that it has performed the first post-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval surgery in the United States using a new device for treating tricuspid valve disease.
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June 20, 2011 β Evaluating patients with multiple sclerosis who have narrowed jugular and azygos veins β and the value of widening those veins with angioplasty β warrants careful, well-designed research, noted members of a Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation's research consensus panel. The multidisciplinary panel indicated that while specific parameters for a large-scale, pivotal multicenter trial are not now available, that type of study is the "mandatory goal" in exploring a condition called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (or CCSVI).
June 20, 2011
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June 7, 2011 β Research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's annual meeting showed a novel optical imaging technique called near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF), which can image dangerous blood clots hiding inside elusive veins. The imaging technique uses light energy with a newly synthesized imaging agent to glean information about cells and tissues. The agent uses a biomarker that seeks out fibrin peptide that is actively involved in the formation of clots.
June 20, 2011
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June 20, 2011 β Randox Laboratories, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today launched an automated laboratory assay for heart-type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
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June 7, 2011 β This year at SNM 2011, Siemens Healthcare introduced Biograph mCT 20 Excel, on display for the first time in a nuclear medicine-focused meeting. Biograph mCT 20 Excel is the latest addition to the Biograph family of PET/CT imagers. This hybrid system offers imaging performance at a lower cost.
June 20, 2011
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June 20, 2011 β The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) has awarded $20,000 to Dimitrios Papanagnou, M.D., FACEP, director of medical simulation and medical student ultrasound course director at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to fund point-of-care ultrasound research in emergency settings. The grant was sponsored by Siemens.
June 20, 2011
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June 20, 2011 β French technology company Withings announced today the U.S. availability of its blood pressure monitor (BPM) for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It is offered as a modern way to measure and record blood pressure readings in the personal and professional arenas.
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